A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Several land speed world records were shattered at this Welsh beach.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The Tudor-style cottage in the middle of the square is not quite what it seems.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.